h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well you know kids - they say the cutest things. But mine even more so because they are the best most smartest children in the whole buzz lightyear planet universe and then that all!!!

Anyway, Nyssa this evening was cuddling with me, and out of the blue says, "Manna," (hybrid she made up of 'Lanna' and 'Mamma,' and aint that the cutest f*cking thing you ever did hear? "when you were a baby and I was a grown-up you were in my tummy, and when James Daddy was a baby he was in Joseph's tummy!"

Not to be outdone, at bedtime Joseph sang a very *very* long impromptu lullaby to his 'babies.' A few days ago he found three beanie baby sized animals - a koala, a kitty, and a bear - and used his little train engineer hat as a makeshift pack/bed for them and started referring to them as his babies, and has been quite nurturing to them. His lullaby was themed along the lines of 'Lullaby, pleeeease go to sleeeeeep my babies, I will proteeeeect you' and would add in verses like, 'don't worry, I will not let the jaguar get you,' or 'mooommmy, you can touch one baby if you're caaaareful,' (eventually my patience was rewarded with my being allowed to touch each baby once ). Then he cuddled up next to his hat o' babies and was ready for sleepies. Well, after trying to lecture me about precisely how much light was needed in his room so his babies wouldn't get scared. If that isn't projection, I don't know what is . He's gotten quite a lot of verbiage to back up his quick-to-be-indignant little personality. Today at dinner he was trying to tell me that he didn't like the skin on his roasted potatoes. I was only half-listening and kept telling him to just eat his dinner. Finally he raises his voice a bit and says, 'Mommy, will you just listen to me for a minute please?!' Hehe..don't know where he's heard that before . It's also funny how moralistic he's become. Going to visit his Mormon relatives in Boise, he told them that they shouldn't eat turkey or fish, and when he came back, told me that I should pray to heavenly father. Once again, I had to break out the 'people make choices' speech. At least he listens and observes enough to pick these ideas up.

Oh yeah, passed the drug test, I did. I'll start work on Monday. In the meantime, I need to pester my mom to buy some more yeast, because baking bread has been my current method of keeping the demons at bay, so to speak. I must say, I'll be very glad to not have to work in food service. Imagine! Having my hair down if I want. Imagine! Not having to boil my hands every two minutes (I was invariably the most annoyingly scrupulously clean waitress in a 50 mile radius). I'll just try not to think about the tip income I won't be getting. Mostly it will be nice to get to wear clothes that I wouldn't take anywhere near a restaurant kitchen.

Kids. I love 'em. Particularly fried or roasted.

The projection thing is interesting... Jimmy had a 'sister' called Kate from when he was 2 til when he was six, when she 'suddenly died' (in the 1950s, of cancer - go figure that one out! He announced her death in the most matter of fact, 'I'm finished with her' tone.)
Then, a few months ago, he started theorising a twin sister called Kathy. As in "I bet if I had a twin sister, you'd let her do" whatever it is.
Then, on Monday, I awoke remembering a dream in which I had found that he did have a twin sister, and for 16 years I had some how forgotten her existence. She was on a chair in my bedroom, she was still a baby, and she was shrunken down to doll size, with dehydration. So scary!

So many £s of trick cyclists bills there...

Worse than that, KerrAvon... Guess who's studying to be a counsellor?

I'll cvoncede that your kids are the most wonderful intelligent etc. kids....

Since Faith's still just a baby

Who, me? A bit overboard? Nah...

Well..just remember that they'd be no great figures of humankind if there were no obsessive mothers who thought their progeny were the next Messiahs .

I still think it's neat how excited Joseph got last spring that I was going to have a baby, especially considering that he hadn't the slightest idea who I was

*melts*

Aww, you guys, you're making me all maternal!

Well I certainly enjoyed my conversation by proxy with Nyssa the other week. Smart cookies these kids of yours.

Probably plotting the downfall of western civilisation as we speak, which would be a good thing.